Author: Martin Bragwell

“Can You Hear Me?”

A cell phone company has popularized the above question in its advertizing videos. For the answer to be positive depends on both the transmission and reception of both phones. If either is faulty then the conversation becomes a monologue rather…

The Doctor’s Orders

I still go to the doctor who has been my primary physician for a good many years. He practices in the town where we lived prior to moving to our present address. There are many doctors closer to us that…

A New Dogma

[The following article appeared in Truth Magazine (June 21, 1973). This was about 6 months before my youngest son was born. It was also before many of my friends were born, who are freely expressing the same sentiments that were…

Cutting Wood and Restoring N. T. Christianity

In my early years, before Daddy got steady work in town, we lived in the country and did small time farming. We had neither electricity nor gas at our house. We heated and cooked using wood for fuel. There were…

“France Just Made Spanking Your Kid Illegal”

The above headline crossed my computer’s news feed this morning. The article says that the new law made all forms of corporal punishment illegal including spanking. They did give some deference to spanking over other forms of corporal punishment by…